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the capricious tide
our lives are governed physically
by the sun and moon our
moods and days are set by day
and night the tides relentless
pull and push in a distant way
and ultimately take us over
the horizon I watched your
stricken body visited infested
by malignancy take you further
out to sea at every ebb and
then you were gone from my
sight my touch but the gravity
of our passion and the tender
lap of our intimate fusion is un
diminished by the fateful moon
and our mortal nature a different
sea buoys me up the ocean of love
infinite mysterious flowing from
our hearts and embrace the
waters of encounter and be
longing where the be and the
longing combine the torrent of
tempests and the limpid iridescent
droplet all in a cataract a breaker
a crest and a still infinity
mirroring the extraordinary
gift of meaning absorption release
and a detonation of being gathering
us all in the final surge of the
energies drowning us with a watery
immolation of perfection
© Neil Thompson 2025